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Re: Poll-Video Replay

I voted "no" because the solution I would rather see is for the GDC to design games in which there are fewer fouls that can be committed, in which fouls are blatantly obvious, and that are generally less burdensome on the referees. Too often, I feel the answer to "But we don't want teams to do X" is "Well, let's make it a foul then" instead of "Let's incentivize teams to do Y over X".

I know the VEX Robotics Competition manages to do this (offenses are either DQs, which are rare, or nothing); I'd think this approach to game design could scale at least partially to FRC.
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